Dynamics of the biomass-density relationship and frond biomass inequality for Mazzaella cornucopiae (Gigartinaceae, Rhodophyta): Implications for the understanding of frond interactions

Phycologia

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 506-516

  Scrosati, Ricardo ^a,b   Dewreede, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Ejército Constitucionalista ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAZZAELLA CORNUCOPIAE;

EID: 0031401650     PISSN: 00318884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2216/i0031-8884-36-6-506.1     Document Type: Article

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